Financing statements, filing with Department of Assessments and

Taxation by electronic data interchange, provisions added ........

Letters of Credit (Title 5) of the Uniform Commercial Code,

revision enacted ..............................................................................

Emergencies —

SEE ALSO Ambulances; Rescue Squads
Charles County -

Repeated false alarms or abusive use of county emergency and

public safety services, prohibition, and licensing and

regulation of alarm systems contractors, provisions added ....

Emergency Management Agency, appropriation to .........................

Emergency Medical Services -

Advisory Council, membership altered .........................................

Board, authorized to set fees designated for trauma and

specialty referral centers ............................................................

Helicopter purchase and Centreville hangar expansion,

appropriation for .........................................................................

Personnel who act to resuscitate a person when a "do not
resuscitate" order ordinarily would apply, immunity from
liability and a finding of unprofessional conduct, provisions
added ...........................................................................................

Providers, licensure or certification, provisions added, and
regulatory authority transferred from State Board of
Physician Quality Assurance to Emergency Medical Services
Board ...........................................................................................

Systems, Maryland Institute for, appropriation to ......................

Emergency medical technician-paramedics, immunity from civil
liability, provisions clarified ..........................................................

Health maintenance organization 24-hour toll free telephone
access system to determine patient's primary care provider and
participating specialists at hospitals, use of system by hospital
emergency department, and authorization to use hospital's
on-call health care providers for emergency services, provisions
added ...............................................................................................

Medical screening services, reimbursement of hospital emergency
facilities and providers by health maintenance organizations,
provisions amended ........................................................................

911 emergency number systems, appropriation to ..........................

Professional engineers who voluntarily practice engineering
without compensation at scene of emergency or disaster,
immunity provisions added ...........................................................

Used Tire Cleanup and Recycling Fund permitted to be used for
fire cessation emergencies, and tire recycling fee eliminated at
end of FY 2000 ...............................................................................

Washington Suburban Sanitary District, emergency water use
restrictions, penalties added .........................................................

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INDEX

Chapter

Page

43	1284
652	3658
734 3	4166 78 253
12	369
172	1815
3	76 324
195	1900
201 3	1912 80 245
561	3066
363	2501
107 3	1583 177
277	2104
627	3504
490	2842